Lecture Today: "The Wonderful Things of Punt: Excavations at a Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea" October 12, 2011

Kathryn A. Bard is Professor of Archaeology at Boston University. She edited The Encyclopiada of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (1999). She is a recipient of the National Geographic Society’s Chairman’s Award for Exploration in 1998, as well as an Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2010.

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